alanshore wrote:
i just meant they have a stronger preference for some schools than others. im not saying stern doesn't place any into those companies.. im just saying its a smaller percentage and relative to their finance placement, the management consulting placement is a bit weaker.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "they have a stronger preference"? If a company goes to Stern, that means it has a preference for it. How do you measure whether this preference is stronger as compared with Tuck for instance? I would say that percentage of people hired is a weak indicator of preference. The weaker percentage of placements reflects the career interests of people going to Stern in general - most go there to get a job in finance. It's not like the firms go to campus and say, 'Well, let's hire 3 people from Stern and 15 from Tuck just because we like Tuck better and therefore even if there are 10 qualified people at Stern, we should reject 7 of them'. It doesn't work like that. If McKinsey goes to Stern, but doesn't go to the University of Delaware, I would say that it prefers Stern. If it goes to Stern at Tuck and hires different numbers, I can't conclude that the difference is because the company prefers one school over another.